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LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 A man who was \u201cfull of anger\u201d went on a two-hour stabbing and robbery rampage in Southern California, killing four people and wounding two others, authorities said Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The 33-year-old Garden Grove man was taken into custody after he came out of a 7-Eleven in Santa Ana, southeast of Los Angeles, and dropped a knife along with a handgun that he had taken from a guard, police said.<\/p>\n
The violence appeared to be random and the only known motives seem to be \u201crobbery, hate, homicide,\u201d Garden Grove police Lt. Carl Whitney said at a news conference.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know this guy was full of anger and he harmed a lot of people tonight,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The suspect and all the victims were Hispanic, he added.<\/p>\n
The attacks on more than a half-dozen places took place over about two hours in Garden Grove and neighboring Santa Ana.<\/p>\n
The two people who were injured were listed in stable condition late Wednesday night and were expected to survive, Whitney said.<\/p>\n
Detectives were interviewing the man and also expected to be at the various crime scenes through the night in order to collect evidence for a court case, Whitney said. Surveillance cameras caught some of the carnage.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have video showing him attacking these people and conducting these murders,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Whitney said the man lived in a Garden Grove apartment building where he stabbed two men during some kind of confrontation. One man died inside an apartment and another was found wounded on the balcony and died at a hospital.<\/p>\n
Whitney said a bakery also was robbed.<\/p>\n
The owner, who asked not to be identified, told KCAL-TV that she was charging her cellphone at about 4 p.m. when the man drove up and apparently mistook her for a customer.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe went directly to the register and tried to open the register … he showed me a gun,\u201d she said. He took all the money and fled.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I was very lucky because he thought I was a customer, not the owner,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The man also robbed an insurance business, where a 54-year-old employee was stabbed several times and was expected to survive.<\/p>\n
He was armed with \u201csome sort of machete knives\u201d when he confronted the woman, Whitney said.<\/p>\n
The woman \u201cwas very brave,\u201d Whitney said. \u201cShe fought as best she could.\u201d<\/p>\n
An alarm company saw the robbery on a live television feed and called police.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey could see that the female victim was on the ground with blood and multiple injuries,\u201d Whitney said.<\/p>\n
The man fled with cash and also robbed a check-cashing business next door, the lieutenant said.<\/p>\n
Shortly after 6 p.m., the attacker drove up to a Chevron station, where he attacked a man pumping gas \u201cfor no reason,\u201d Whitney said. \u201cThere was no robbery.\u201d<\/p>\n
The man was stabbed in the back and \u201chis nose was nearly severed off his face,\u201d the lieutenant said. Bystanders rushed to help the man, he said.<\/p>\n
Undercover detectives tracked the suspect\u2019s silver Mercedes to the parking lot of the 7-Eleven store in Santa Ana and within a minute of their arrival the man came out of the store, carrying a large knife and a gun that he had cut from the belt of a security guard after stabbing him, Whitney said.<\/p>\n
The man had followed the guard into the store and stabbed him several times during a confrontation, Whitney said.<\/p>\n
Police ordered the man to drop his weapons and he complied and was arrested.<\/p>\n
Police then learned that a male employee of a nearby Subway restaurant also had been fatally stabbed during a robbery, Whitney said.<\/p>\n
The brutal and puzzling attack came just days after a pair of mass\u00a0shootings<\/a>\u00a0in Texas and Ohio left 31 people dead and stunned the nation. The shooter in El Paso, Texas, apparently posted an anti-immigrant screed before killing 22 people at a Walmart on Saturday. Less than a day later, a man opened fire on a Dayton, Ohio, entertainment district, killing nine people before police shot him dead.<\/p>\n